Nina Petri

Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it’s the oldest and ...

The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files ...

Nine-year-old Max moves to Geroldseck Castle, together with his mother, who takes up a position as a geriatric nurse there. Apparently a shrewd ...

Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its decadence, its fall and the rise of populism.

On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, the docu-drama paints a multifaceted portrait of the most influential German thinker of ...

Things couldn’t be going better for young musician Jim from Hanover: his girlfriend Jule is expecting a baby, the couple have found a great ...

The end of a summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that must not be: Shortly before the start of ...

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and ...

A teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.

To fulfill the last will of his mother, the young JAKOB ADLER needs to meet his biological father, who is inmate of a forensic psychiatric ...

Vera von Schalburg is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested ...

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus’ attempt to bring back normality ...

Macho Alex is smart and good-looking. He is known among women as an unscrupulous hunter. He wraps the women in rows around his fingers and then ...

A policeman leads a well-ordered life with his wife and 18-year-old daughter. The apparent idyll is abruptly shattered when the daughter is ...

Upon being informed that he is fatally ill with cancer, Max, who works at a used car store, steals money which his boss has gained through ...

When interrogating a suspected child kidnapper, a police officer uses illicit interrogation techniques, gaining information that leads to the ...

It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds a sleeping man in her hotel room, the business lawyer Friedrich. A mistake by the ...

Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern ...

After Victor, 19 years old, is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl, his teachers -under the direction of principal Cornelia Cordes- have to ...

1986 – The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune ...

Twelve-year-old Marie has a very special relationship with the house where she lives with her extended family. Marie secretly talks to it as if ...

Poor Bibi – due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series ...